Steve Beauregard come on down, and other amusements from an ugly loss

[Kim Malo <kimmalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes folks, our own listmate Mr. Stephen Beauregard of Maine was part of the 
half time show at tonight's Cs game. Unfortunately Mr Beauregard -being an 
extremely loyal Celtics fan- showed how in tune with the current bunch he 
was by missing the layup. But hope he heard and appreciated the cheers from 
the balcony when they announced his name and I realized why he had asked if 
anyone from the list would be at the game tonight.

As for the game? *shrug*, an ugly way to lose a game but it happens. 
Leaving aside the last few bonehead plays, you could make an argument that 
this game was won at the line. Unobtrusively to me until it was pointed out 
that the Wiz were getting 4 times the number of FT attempts as the Cs. It 
eventually 'evened' out to only twice as many, but most of the other stats 
were remarkably close so that the FT difference weighed heavily. Some of it 
was the Cs own fault with the usual settling for outside shots, but a fair 
degree of it wasn't, including MJ still getting some superstar of 
superstars treatment. There were other ways they could have and should have 
overcome this to win but didn't, obviously, but in a fairly even game the 
FTs mattered.

Pregame shoot around was not without amusement as our newest acquisition 
took the floor. I can't tell you how relieved I was to see him NOT taking a 
bunch of 3s. Mostly 15 footers and layups. The layups actually got amusing 
as his slamming one home seemed to inspire emulation by his new teammates 
with a run of attempted power dunks (as much power as they could generate) 
starting with JR and working it's way through a bunch of guys. I had hopes 
the might consider playing with their new toy during the game itself, but 
alas and alack...

Anyway, cheers to Steve for providing the list with a celebrity for the 
night. As to the actual finalists - Steve, there were clearly ringers out 
there tonight : )

Kim